# Urgent: Lost all chat history 2.2.9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** java\ **Created:** [December 10, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834 "2025-12-10T19:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omair\_Mian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Omair\_Mian](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Omair_Mian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/1 "2025-12-10T19:23:03Z")
### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE ### Describe the Bug For one of my project (IOE-Agentic-Analytics-Platform) at location \wsl$\Ubuntu\home\mian whenever the cursor is closed and restarted due to an update or just normally after exiting the app all my chat and Agent Mode history is completely deleted/disappeared from Cursor IDE. This always happen. This is extremely disappointing and frustrating — a professional tool should not randomly erase essential user data after a system restart. Please take this issue seriously as my ongoing work is hampered. and the cursor IDE becomes useless. ### Steps to Reproduce Work in Cursor IDE using Chat and Agent Mode Restart the cursor or the computer. Open Cursor again. Observe that all chat history and Agent Mode conversations are missing — the entire project history is gone. ### Expected Behavior Cursor IDE should retain all Chat and Agent Mode history after restarting the system. User data should be safely stored and automatically synced, not permanently erased by a simple restart. Note this happens only for this project. Majority of other project (not always but most of the times) chat history is not lost. ### Screenshots / Screen Recordings ![Screenshot 2025-12-11 002116.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/6/6/6690f1d226c58d0d81f9d956d2b893c348b63faf.png) ### Operating System Windows 10/11 ### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy) Version: 2.2.9 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: a86689c93e9fb11addfbefd29a6ec7c0a59175e0 Date: 2025-12-10T16:51:25.713Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.26200 ### Does this stop you from using Cursor Yes - Cursor is unusable ---
**Author:** ![officering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@officering](https://forum.cursor.com/u/officering)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/2 "2025-12-10T19:41:11Z")
i can’t even log in! every time i do, it says im a freeplan user when we have a team account. forget about history, thats all gone too,. the agent window just sits there. try to run a command in a new agent, and it spins doing nothing ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/3 "2025-12-10T23:49:16Z")
### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE ### Describe the Bug My system just upgraded to Cursor 2.2. Weirdly enough, I was asked to login again and pass the Cursor tour onboarding when I opened cursor again (via `cursor my.workspace` in WSL2 / Windows 11). When I was finally back, I could see my past chat history… but none of them will load. I am getting this (cf screenshot). See the “Loading Chat” ? It doesn’t go further than that. It never loads. This is super annoying. And If I click in the “Show Chat History”, I get a “[composer] No composer data handler found” error 😕 ### Steps to Reproduce Update to Cursor 2.2. Try loading a previous chat. ### Expected Behavior I should be able to load my previous chats without issue. ### Screenshots / Screen Recordings ![Screenshot 2025-12-10 183939.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/d/8/d833b600601f4806dea9ef1200e7c5eaef5509c6.png) ### Operating System Windows 10/11 ### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy) Version: 2.2.9 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: a86689c93e9fb11addfbefd29a6ec7c0a59175e0 Date: 2025-12-10T16:51:25.713Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.26200 ### Does this stop you from using Cursor No - Cursor works, but with this issue ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/5 "2025-12-10T23:51:37Z")
Here is a screenshot of the error I get when I click on the “Show Chat History” button: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/1/b/1b81f0dd1f927b91f5aaa45b9255bdefe8402636.png) Gives me this 👇 ![Screenshot 2025-12-10 184609](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/8/a/8a60032f36e365797d5b508f98f2e62ff021d704.png) ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/6 "2025-12-11T00:07:28Z")
New test: 0. I closed and restarted Cursor 1. I opened the chat panel ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/2/8/28acab01660444e7b886a1b4ee341f9222d259d8.png) 2. I clicked on “Show Chat History” on, the first time I click it, the menu shows: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/7/8/78f1a0a436b32ef0b148b33c46dd82acb66c6a1d.png) 3. First bug (the one reported above), the chat doesn’t load 💥 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/b/c/bc5dc7bca15843977b4c1ce4f8dbe7d1a3c565f0.png) 4. Then, second bug, if I try to click again on the “Show Chat History”, then nothing shows 💥 and I get the notification error ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/5/4/54fa8ae251a3058f6fb91889cf65fd5c72dd08cb.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/f/c/fcec8f8f8758271907be3de072497aa72a31ce6f.png) 5. Finally, last bug: I cannot close the chat 👀 💥 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/d/3/d3aa3f678d5ec8fecfa1abecaade08319272cae4.png) Hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![PeterCastler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@PeterCastler](https://forum.cursor.com/u/PeterCastler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/8 "2025-12-11T01:58:25Z")
### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE ### Describe the Bug I was in the middle of a project and since the latest test run ended successfully and the “install update” button appeared very timely right at the end of the successful run, I thought “what the hell, let’s have a celebratory update”. Since the latest update, my chat history won’t load. When I click the icon for the chat history I get this error in the lower left corner of the IDE: `[composer] No composer data handle found` When I hit the PLUS button for a “New Chat”, I can see the titles of the earlier chats in the bottom, but I can’t view them. ### Steps to Reproduce 1. Update Cursor to version 2.2.14 2. Open an earlier workspace with a chat history ### Expected Behavior You should see earlier chats but it’s stuck at “Loading Chat”. ### Operating System Windows 10/11 ### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy) Version: 2.2.14 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50 Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.19045 ### Additional Information I need to have access to old chat logs to see what and how changes were made to my project for the test run to succeed. Right now I have a working project but I don’t know how to replicate the success because I lost access to the chats. ### Does this stop you from using Cursor Yes - Cursor is unusable ---
**Author:** ![Jung\_Woo\_Kim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@Jung\_Woo\_Kim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Jung_Woo_Kim)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/9 "2025-12-11T05:18:44Z")
Same Here. For me, every latest update causes this problem. It doesn’t stop me from having a new chat, but it does frustrate me a lot when I cannot access any of my previous chats due to doing what Cursor _wanted_ me to do by popping notifications to UPDATE. ---
**Author:** ![art\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@art\_m](https://forum.cursor.com/u/art_m)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/10 "2025-12-10T22:37:34Z")
### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE ### Describe the Bug another data loss bug. are you sure this is not unmaintained teenagerware we are paying for here? i had a layout i liked. i updated cursor via the “update” dialog that appeared. cursor fukkkked around with the layout and now the panels are in a random order and my chat history (several open and --at least to me though clearly not to you – important chats) vanished. that’s a lot of work of mine you flushed because you don’t bother to test your changes. opus tells me there is no way to recover ### Steps to Reproduce update to 2.2.9. watch cursor fukkkk around with the layout and erase your chat histories. ### Expected Behavior what exactly do you _think_ the correct behaviour is? ### Operating System MacOS ### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy) Version: 2.2.9 VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: a86689c93e9fb11addfbefd29a6ec7c0a59175e0 Date: 2025-12-10T16:51:25.713Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0 ### For AI issues: which model did you use? opus ### Additional Information no i don’t need a workaround. no i am not sending you a screenshot of my company’s software. no, i don’t need a lecture about how to avoid this level of incompetence in the future. just test it yourself and fix it and add it to your minimal stash of regression tests so it doesn’t happen again. thank you ### Does this stop you from using Cursor Yes - Cursor is unusable ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_S1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dan_s1/32/89511_2.png) [@Dan\_S1](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Dan_S1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/11 "2025-12-11T06:45:57Z")
sorry to laugh but you sound like me. ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/12 "2025-12-11T14:00:08Z")
Just updated Cursor to the latest version… but the issue remains 😕 Unsure how I’m going to work today… ``` Version: 2.2.14 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50 Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.26200 ``` ---
**Author:** ![user531](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a6a055/32.png) [@user531](https://forum.cursor.com/u/user531)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/13 "2025-12-11T17:38:18Z")
Any updates? ---
**Author:** ![MarceloDiani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/marcelodiani/32/72127_2.png) [@MarceloDiani](https://forum.cursor.com/u/MarceloDiani)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/14 "2025-12-11T22:04:53Z")
### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE ### Describe the Bug It’s an old bug but it is still happening, if you update cursor you are unable to open old chats ### Steps to Reproduce Update cursor to a higher version Try to open any old chat, it keeps loading forever ### Expected Behavior Chat should open normally ### Operating System Windows 10/11 ### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy) Version: 2.2.17 (user setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: cf858ca030e9c9a99ea444ec6efcbcfc40bfda70 Date: 2025-12-11T18:30:06.649Z Electron: 37.7.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 Node.js: 22.20.0 V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0 OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.26100 ### Does this stop you from using Cursor Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/15 "2025-12-11T22:32:30Z")
Another report of the issue here: [Losing past chats in update](https://forum.cursor.com/t/losing-past-chats-in-update/145997) ---
**Author:** ![andrewh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/andrewh/32/65515_2.png) [@andrewh](https://forum.cursor.com/u/andrewh)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/16 "2025-12-12T00:31:03Z")
Hey all - we have 2 people working on this right now. Our understanding is that this is an older bug that is still appearing but with some frequency on update, so the more updates that occur the more likely you are to see it. We are working to fully rewrite all chat loading and finally fix this. ---
**Author:** ![AlexeyK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@AlexeyK](https://forum.cursor.com/u/AlexeyK)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/17 "2025-12-12T01:19:36Z")
Hi all, I am working on our side to fix this problem. I’m sorry about this situation. I can imagine how painful it might be to lose data, and we will fix this issue soon. Today, we might have backup data available on the disk. The path is as follows: C:\Users\USER\_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User\globalStorage\state.vscdb.backup on Windows /Users/USER\_NAME/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb.backup on Mac OS Please check if this file exists, when it was last updated, and try to replace the state.vscdb file without the .backup prefix with this one - it might help to recover some data partially. And please copy the existing state.vscdb file somewhere first, if you already have new chats that you want to keep. ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/18 "2025-12-12T01:48:17Z")
Thank you guys. I appreciate the acknowledgement of the importance of fixing this 🙏 Unfortunately, for me it’s toast… the backup file exists but given all my experiments, it seems that the “correct” backup file has been overwritten 😕 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/c/d/cd86cc43192ab8ebe76b9d1a5b5518ff332aba75.png) So it is what it is, ■■■■ happens, but from now on, please please please change your upgrade strategy. Your serious customers want stable, super tested upgrades that they can rely on. I don’t want to sweat of fear each time I push the “upgrade” button. And I am 100% fine not being able to enjoy ChatGPT 5.2 the day it is released if that’s the trade-off! My 2cents advice: Put all your customers on a stable branch by default and only push the most tested and stable upgrades to those customers. Then, in Settings, allow those who want to always be at the very latest version of Cursor and experiment with all your new features as soon as they’re out to toggle “Experimental branch” and send them all the latest updates. You could even mimic what Debian is doing with 3 branches: - _`stable`_ for guys like me who only want the rock solid versions and are OK to wait a few months before getting the latest shiny new features.\* - `testing`\* for guys a bit more adventurous who are ok to encounter some minimal glitches here and there but are happy to enjoy the latest features within a few weeks after their release.\* - `unstable`\* for the crazy ones who want the absolute latest version and test new feature as soon as they are released. ---
**Author:** ![andrewh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/andrewh/32/65515_2.png) [@andrewh](https://forum.cursor.com/u/andrewh)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/19 "2025-12-12T03:30:05Z")
Hey! Let me know if you got an email we sent over. We’ve been in an incident investigating and are adding major safety guardrails around chat loading that should be released tomorrow. I truly apologize, I understand the pain and we are working to fix this conclusively right now. ---
**Author:** ![thibauld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/thibauld/32/3844_2.png) [@thibauld](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thibauld)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/20 "2025-12-12T03:54:45Z")
email received, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![user1455](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dc4da7/32.png) [@user1455](https://forum.cursor.com/u/user1455)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/21 "2025-12-12T12:07:20Z")
same here. lost 4gb of chat hisotry. catastrophic ---
**Author:** ![clssmitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@clssmitty](https://forum.cursor.com/u/clssmitty)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834/22 "2025-12-12T14:44:14Z")
Also experiencing this, seem to have lost all chats across all projects [Next page](https://forum.cursor.com/t/urgent-lost-all-chat-history-2-2-9/145834.md?page=2)